The Tochigi Prefectural Police will enforce traffic regulations in Nikko City for three days from March 24 to 26 in anticipation of the G7 Ministerial Meeting to be held in Nikko City. Among the ministerial meetings to be held before and after the G7 Hiroshima Summit, a meeting of ministers in charge of gender equality…
Month: June 2023
Glamping facility with a total of 4 buildings at an olive grove on Awaji Island. Enjoy Hyogo food BBQ and starry skies.
ResortGlamping.com has begun taking reservations for the July 14 grand opening of Olive GLAMP Awaji Island Virgin Valley (2905-15 Kusumoto, Awaji City, Hyogo Prefecture). This facility offers private glamping amidst the vast olive groves of Awaji Island, which is blessed with abundant sunlight. All four buildings are equipped with bathrooms and toilets, making them comfortable…
Deep Impact Gate,” where visitors can experience the trajectory of the famous horse and the great outdoors, is newly opened at the Northern Horse Park in Hokkaido.
The Northern Horse Park (114-7 Misawa, Tomakomai City, Hokkaido) will open the newly built “Deep Impact Gate,” a monument named after the famous horse “Deep Impact,” to the public on June 9. The sculpture was created by Kan Yasuda, a sculptor based in Italy and a native of Bibai City, Hokkaido. The work was created…
Pouch water with Blue Impulse on it, on sale from the Miho Air Base Air Festival in Tottori, Japan. Eco-friendly containers that generate less waste and are environmentally friendly
Value Creation Platform and Lucid will produce and sell pouch-type mineral water with Blue Impulse design at air festivals, including the Miho Air Base Air Festival on May 28. The service uses brandly pouch water, which generates less waste and is environmentally friendly. The service allows customers to make their own original pouch water, and…
Monthly Airline July 2023 issue features “The Airport,” focusing on Fukuoka Airport, which is undergoing a major transition.
On May 30, Ikaros Shuppan released “Monthly Airline July 2023,” an A4-size, 172-page book priced at 1,595 yen. The special feature is “The Airport. Fukuoka Airport is a favorite among aviation enthusiasts for its wide variety of airlines and aircraft, from large to small aircraft, as well as its very popular observation deck. In recent…
JR East offers “same-day hotel delivery service,” in which luggage checked in at departure stations is delivered to accommodations in Tokyo on the same day.
As a new service of “JRE Hand-Luggage Travel,” JR East will start accepting same-day hotel delivery service of baggage to Tokyo using “Hakobun” train luggage transportation service at Niigata Station from June 1 and at Morioka Station from June 16. The fee is 2,500 yen per piece of baggage (total of 3 dimensions not exceeding…
Tokyo-Kyushu Ferry to Urayasu/Makuhari with car. Simple 4-day drive package with round-trip boat and 1 night hotel stay.
Venus Travel, a member of the SHK Line Group, has begun sales of the Tokyo-Kyushu Ferry “Urayasu/Makuhari Toktoku Drive Pack: 4 days from/to Shin Moji,” which operates between Shin Moji Port in Fukuoka and Yokosuka Port in Kanagawa Prefecture. The tour is available from June 12 to August 31 (except August 8 to 20), and…
Vice President Yamada meets with Lao Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs Salmxai
On May 26, Vice President Junichi Yamada met with Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Lao People’s Democratic Republic, Salmxai Khommasit, in Tokyo. At the beginning of the meeting, Vice President Yamada mentioned the results of JICA’s projects in Laos, including wind power generation projects, human resource development support, and infrastructure…
Wind Radar” function added to Yahoo! Weather app, useful for both disaster prevention and everyday life.
JAPAN announced that it will add a “wind radar” feature to the iOS version of its Yahoo! Weather app by June; the Android version has already been available since April. The feature, which allows users to pinpoint wind speed and direction at one-hour intervals from two hours in advance up to 72 hours in the…
KDDI and Wi2 provide mountain lodge Wi-Fi in Hakuba Village in advance. with satellite communication service Starlink.
KDDI and Wire and Wireless (Wi2), in cooperation with Yamap, will begin offering “mountain lodge Wi-Fi” using the “Starlink” satellite communication service to improve the communication environment in mountain lodges where signal reception is difficult. Prior to this, Happoike mountain lodge (1-4487 Kitashiro, Hakuba-mura, Kitaazumi-gun, Nagano Prefecture), operated by Hakuba Village Promotion Public Corporation, will…